IV At supper, with her red, downcast eyes, she had returned to sheer girlishness again, overawed by her mother.
She found a world of meaning in the simple words, coquetted and flirted with a fascinating girlishness that was entrancing, and flashed her merry blue eyes with an invitation so purely personal that for a moment the footlights disappeared.
The girlishness and natural beauty of many modern light-opera choruses are simply amazing.
Her appealing, unsophisticatedgirlishness had gone, and in its place was self-possession and authority.
She had lost the roguish girlishness that made her Gabriel so charming, and she had not yet learned to give free rein to the rich individuality and the unctuous humor that are so characteristic of her work at the present time.
Possibly Demos could not have stood a presentment of girlishness unrestrained.
Tush,' I can hear some damned flutterpate exclaim, 'girlishness and innocence are as strong and as permanent as womanhood itself!
A change had again come over her manner; the girlishness was modified, the old sadder tone was audible at moments.
She seemed to have grown younger; in her voice and manner there was a girlishness which was quite new to Waymark.
Tush," I can hear some damned flutterpate exclaim, "girlishness and innocence are as strong and as permanent as womanhood itself!
There was about her that sweetness and girlishness of demeanor which had been her greatest asset through life.
The sight of her worn, saddened features sharpened Hilda's appreciation of her own girlishness and inexperience.
And she found that tears were running down her cheeks; and she felt all her girlishness and fragility.
Despite her reason, she had a fear that numbers of people would perceive her to be newly affianced and remark upon the contrast between her girlishness and his maturity.
It is the picture of a beautiful girl, to judge of it by the girlish face and hair, the girlishness of the long, slender neck.
Grandmaternity and girlishness scarcely fit in well together, and rosebuds are a little out of place when a nursery of the second degree is established.
Grown older she is still the great girl she was ten years ago, if her type of girlishness is a little changed and her gaiety of manner a little less persistent.
And the hands, of course, had not recovered girlishness and beauty.
The laughing chambermaid, who had retained girlishness of disposition for two decades after girlhood was past, seemed to him all at once middle-aged.
The frank girlishness had died as completely as though it had never been, and the man stood abashed, and at a loss for understanding.
It almost seemed doubtful if she heard and understood all the simplegirlishness in her niece's rhapsody, so preoccupied she seemed with her own thoughts.
She took up her studies where she had dropped them, a little of her old buoyancy revived; and if her girlishness was buried with ideals and ambitions, her intellect was clear and strong and her character more finely balanced.
The lingering girlishness in her face had departed after a memorable occasion, but her prettiness had gained in intellect and character; piquant and roguish, at times, as it still was.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girlishness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: childishness; puerility; womanhood
